Motor-Cross No. 424, May 12, 2008


© M. Jackson 2008 solution

Across
1. Road sections creating noise and vibration (6,6)
8. With 5-Down, Lotus-driving "The Avengers" actress
9. Monster Truck based on Ford F-150
10. '57 Studebaker variant for a Glaswegian
11. Designer of original Mini, ____ Issigonis
13. '78 movie, Burt Reynolds is stunt driver
15. Final-cruise conveyance
17. Steering-column adjective
18. Plastic or metal wheel item (5,3)
21. Alternative to body-on-frame design
22. Competitor of Matchbox and Dinky
23. Elusive downtown real estate (7,5)
Down
1. Occupies the front passenger seat (5,7)
2. Paint and body-repair chain
3. Slang, a smoothed and lowered custom car (4,4)
4. Underground-railway network
5. See 8-Across clue
6. '01 Plymouth with Black Tie Edition variant
7. MSRP, in other words (7,5)
12. Carries out periodic maintenance
14. Ad slogan "____ Jeep" (4,2,1)
16. '06 GMC midsize pickup
19. '65 and '66 Corvair model
20. Road cutlery, you might say


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